I have completed a major revision to the information on this site. However the presentation is not complete.
This is to accommodate new insights obtained after reading "My
Big TOE" by Thomas Campbell which has given me additional
insight and understanding of things which I had previously only had
slight contact with and understanding of. My review of this trilogy
of powerful and highly valuable books is located on
this link. The rewriting and display are not complete and my worldly responsibilities are greatly interfering with completing my plans. Therefore I have not waited for the two major parts of this presentation but present them now for their potential value to you. More will be added as time permits.

First, I have added a new and much revised Short Model of Reality Version 2 which links from the first and last pages of the original Short Model. You are invited to read both and compare. This is a much more powerful Short Model.

Second, I have revised the Introduction section, explaining my debt to Thomas Campbell and his trilogy, "My Big TOE". Again, the first and last pages of the new version are linked from the first and last pages of the original Introduction.

Third, I have added new chapter listings to the end of the Table of Contents page giving present titles to new chapters written but not fully complete based on the new Short Model of Reality - Version 2. I don't know when I will know that I am at an end. Probably never in fact, but sometime for this book.

I have added a "store"
linked to this site. I invite you to investigate this store. The items
being sold display images suitable to the themes of this website.
Some visitors may find them of interest. Click
on this link to see the images and items available. I am leaving this store open as I am paying nothing for it. Nor am I receiving any income from it as the store site keeps it all as there are so few purchasers. I simply leave it up just in case anyone is interested.

If you are reading this,
there is a lot of revised or added content, mostly of a minor nature
scattered throughout the meta-book. I apologize for not having a good
way to point it out to you. It is basically not worth purposely seeking
out. I have found and fixed a number of typing errors and technical
errors. First note that if you follow any of the immediately following
links, return here with your "back" button or equivalent.
There are major revisions in the addition of individual pages showing
the individual "poems" constituting Ultimate
Reality as Universal Mind, but this adds only to appearance, not
substance. I have also added a third version of this showing all
the poems on one page. I have also made a major revision to the
way that you navigate through the meta-book. The heading and link below
on Page and Site Navigation
takes you to that information. Particularly, you no longer are returned
to the top of the Table of Contents when you return to this page but
to the part of the page listing the page from which you are returning.
Hopefully this will save some scrolling on this page and add convenience
to your use of the site. You can also page through the whole meta-book
without in fact having to return to the Table of Contents. I have also
added many hyper-links from page to page which in some cases should
add clarification by acting as references to some text. Some obscure
things might be more clear. Just hit your browser "Back" button
or equivalent to return after these side trips. I have also added a
lot of alternative text items for graphics which I failed to include
at first.

asic
and Freely Available Content.

ntroductory
Items

pening
Page. This is the normal entry point for this web site. This serves
as the cover page of this meta book and also the frontispiece.

arnings.
You were automatically taken here as
you first entered. It is not usually worth returning here again. If
you plan to return to the site, it would probably be best to set your
return point ("favorite" or "bookmark") at a later
point, probably at this Table of Contents page.

echnical
matters. Please look through these the first time you visit this site.

age
or site navigation . Fairly obvious, mostly like a normal book,
but please let me explain the differences.I have recently revised
navigation for greater simplicity and ease of movement. There are
special notes of explanation on this page as well.

ontacting
the author. I truly would appreciate your corrections, requests
or just comments. I have changed my concerns to the Bulletin Board and the Wiki of Tom Campbell where I serve as the administrator. This is disussed elsewhere and there are links in several places on this site. Contact me by e-mail from this site to discuss this site as I do not discuss it on Tom Campbell's site.

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edication. Glory to God in the Highest.
After viewing this page, please click on either of the upper floral
borders to return. If you would like a copy minus the extraneous floral
borders, click on the main text for a borderless copy.

ctive mysticism, a discussion and partial definition. Not rigorous,
just to give you some further orientation. Page
1. Page 2. Page
3. Page 4.

ifts
Received ~ The core items from which everything else presented here derives.

oems
from my youth and later: A stark world view based on Ultimate Reality
as Universal Mind (Buddha Mind). A lot of information in a small space.
Page 1, Page
2, Page 2-Alternate (for smaller
display sizes).

araphrases
of the above as text. Short and cryptic still, I'm afraid, but the
best I can do at this point. Page
1, Page 2, Page
3, Page 4.

ath
of 8 Steps from my middle age years: A world view based on a path of
progression to Union with God. This includes its own commentary. Page
1, Page 2,Page
3,Page 4. I now see this as
a Universal Path of Return to God for humans.

hort
Model of Reality. Note that a new version of this Short Model links from page 1 of this original version and back to page 18 at the end. This is a vastly more powerful model. A synthesis of gifts and insights. What I see as the
combination of what I understand from the gifts given to me as described
above and what I have learned from the various sources mentioned on page
4 of the Introduction.

ntroduction.
Page 1: This is an attempt to give a short and concise, minimal
model of the Nature of God ~ Ultimate Reality and therefore of our own
existence.

oundary.
Page 2: There is a boundary to the reality to which we normally
have access. There is an aperture in this boundary.

xistence
Field. Page 3: The nature of God ~ Ultimate Reality as we have access
to it is an Existence Field which generates us and all else that exists
in this reality.

ouls,
Our Real Existence. Page 4: We have our true existence as souls
which exist as relatively localized aggregates of either data or a medium
which can be coded and organized as data.

ike
A Dream. Page 5: One aspect of souls which must be considered is
that apparent motion and other perceptions may be only apparent. Like
the sense of vision for our physical bodies, apparent motion and other
perceptions may exist only as a model of a physical reality, not as
a physical reality itself.

ouls
Joining Bodies. Page 6: Our souls maintain a continuous existence
and consider themselves "at home" in a non physical portion
of the reality we can access and know to a limited degree that is commonly
referred to as the spirit world.

ierarchy
of Souls. Page 7: There is a hierarchy of knowledge and abilities
among souls, at least in the "organized" areas of the spirit
world as reported from hypnotic regression studies.

pirit
World Organization. Page 8: The organized portions of the spirit
world are highly organized. There are also unorganized portions of the
spirit world which can apparently be quite "wild and woolly".

ntelligence
- Mind. Page 10: Intelligence of a sort or perhaps more appropriately,
Mind, is associated with the existence field and thereby with all of
reality. Pattern matching, perception and intelligence are properties
inherent to God ~ Absolute Reality and are therefore available at varying
levels in souls of organic beings, including humans.

ittle
Man in the Box. Page 11: I have seen no sign that anyone claims
to have found the little man who sits in a box somewhere inside and
constitutes our self.

od's
Personal Nature. Page 12: Not! Anthropomorphic views of God ~ Ultimate
Reality as developed over the centuries of the evolution of the human
concept of God are inappropriate. God has no "person".

onditions
of Life. Page 13: Physical Reality as generated by the Will/ existence
field of God ~ Ultimate Reality has the characteristic of generating
and fostering the development, proliferation and the evolution of increasing
complexity of physical life and life forms. And yes, Virginia, there
is a food chain and you are in it.

imits
of Knowledge. Page 14: The reality in which we exist and function
has no absolutes. Two "laws" discovered in the fields of physics
and mathematics show this to be true.

lan
Versus plan. Page 16: There is not a Plan. Yet there is a great
deal of planning done by the higher levels of souls, i.e. the souls
past incarnating and reported as reclusive, deep purple in appearance
in the spirit world and the ones who direct everything.

he
Second Aperture. Page 17: The second aperture in the barrier which
encloses the Reality of which we are a part is even more enigmatic than
the first aperture.

ommentary.
Page 18: This is all I have available as a short model. There is
much more to say, but not here in a short model. "Where is Jesus?",
not to mention Buddha, Mohammed, etc. Not part of a short model of Reality.

he
blind men and the elephant. A traditional story. Pointing a finger at the
Moon. Reflections on these themes. Page
1, Page 2, Page
3,

hat
Comes Next? A last page, for the present, describing what I plan for
the rest of the book. Also see below where I have listed many further
pages not yet put on this site or otherwise made available.

There will be no follow up book. My writing and time are now devoted to serving as administrator for the Bulletin Board of Tom Campbell and for the Wiki of Tom Campbell. There are a few pages which I wrote towards the publication of such an originally planned book which link from this site. The information within them has however been combined with the Wiki of Tom Campbell. There is no market for such a book. Your interests will better be served by seeking further information there on Tom Campbell's sites. A few specific chapters that were planned and already written will be linked below but my further writing and development of my understanding of the Reality within which we exist is and will be available at the links below. There I support and have somewhat extended the work of Tom Campbell and if you have found any value here, you will find even more there.